2004 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
‘New Women’ in the Era of the Great War, 1890s–1920s
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Women in France since 1789
The Great War of 1914–1918 brought to an end the ‘Belle Epoque’, the quarter-century before the war when life for Europe’s bourgeoisie reached its finest flowering. The war dramatically affected European and world history. It undermined assumptions about Europe’s ‘civilised’ values.1 In France, where much of the conflict took place, the war left an impact that can still be distinguished today.2